US Patent Issued to Sony Group on April 29 for "Encoding device and method, reproduction device and method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,483, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Encoding device and method, reproduction device and method, and program" was invented by Minoru Tsuji (Chiba, Japan), Toru Chinen (Kanagawa, Japan), Runyu Shi (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Nishiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a program enabling each reproduction equipment to reproduce an appropriate content in a simplified manner. A content data decoding unit decodes encoded metadata and outputs zoom ...